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    From:- BBC World News    By :-  Gregory Wakeman   Edited by :- Amal Udawatta Alamy One of show business's most glamorous – and notorious – images, there's more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield than might first appear. On the night of Sophia Loren's "Welcome to Hollywood" dinner party in April 1957, Jayne Mansfield walked into the exclusive Romanoff's restaurant in Beverly Hills with a plan. The swanky soirée being thrown by Paramount Studios was packed with some of the biggest Hollywood stars of the era, from Barbara Stanwyck and Montgomery Clift to Gary Cooper and Shelley Winters. But it would be a candid photograph of Mansfield and Loren that would earn the evening an indelible place in Hollywood history. According to  Eve Golden , the author of Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It, Mansfield wanted to make sure all eyes were on her. Signed to a seven-year contract by Warner Bros. in February 1955, the then 24-year-...

 From :- BBC World News   By :- Nikhil Inamdar ( BBC News, London • @Nik_inamdar )  Edited by :- Amal Udawatta The Trustees of the British Museum Gouache painting on paper depicting goddess Lakṣmi A new exhibition at the British Museum in London showcases the rich journey of India's spiritual art. Titled Ancient India: Living Traditions, it brings together 189 remarkable objects spanning centuries. Visitors can explore everything from 2,000-year-old sculptures and paintings to intricate narrative panels and manuscripts, revealing the stunning evolution of spiritual expression in India. Art from the Indian subcontinent underwent a profound transformation between 200BC and AD600. The imagery which depicted gods, goddesses, supreme preachers and enlightened souls of three ancient religions - Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism - was reimagined from symbolic to more recognisably deriving from human form. While the three religions shared common cultural roots - worshipping anc...